Violence, mutilation, magic, eroticism, a sad wedding, and a happy ending--there is something in The Seduction of Sir Gawain for readers of all kinds. When a green giant challenges King Arthur's knights to play a decapitation game, Sir Gawain, a young, handsome knight famous for his physical strength and moral virtues, accepts the challenge. On the quest to face his death, he learns the limits of his bravery and his moral perfection and discovers his intense sexual desire and love for a woman many years his senior. Sir Gawain survives the beheading game but returns to Camelot in shame, leading a veiled woman by the hand. No one knows how she really looks until Sir Gawain strips off her veil in full view of the court. In the end, love conquers all, even when advanced age threatens happiness and sexual fulfillment. The story combines the mystery and irony of the medieval romance "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and the feminine wish fulfillment of Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale" and its analogs.